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'''Citation'''
<br>Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. (1991). Guidelines for managing visitation to seabird breeding islands. Townsville, Queensland, Australia. 
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'''Summary'''
<br>These guidelines have been developed for the Australian Government (in particular, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Environment Australia–Biodiversity Group) by WBM Oceanics Australia for use by all agencies that are responsible for the management of offshore islands around Australia, excluding external island territories.
These guidelines should be tested by island managers over a twelve-month period. A meeting of managers after this period to review and update the guidelines would be appropriate. 
They are designed to guide island managers in formulating management strategies and techniques for minimising or eliminating the impact of human visitation (including boats and aircraft) on sensitive seabird breeding populations.
Information is provided to assist island managers to:
•understand the mechanisms of human impacts on breeding seabirds (chapter 3);
•place a value on aggregations of breeding seabirds (chapter 4);
•identify potential and actual impact sources and likely control/mitigation measures
(chapter 5);
•identify relevant management concerns and approaches (chapter 6); and
•identify appropriate site- and region-specific ways of implementing control/mitigation
measures (chapter 7).

A bibliography is provided of selected references related to the management of seabird breeding islands. This bibliography can be accessed on ProCite software within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

It is also important that some basic research be undertaken over this period, particularly to identify critical approach distances for a range of species and settings, so that more precise guidelines can be developed in future.




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'''Keywords'''
<br>Seabirds, ecological impacts, visitation, physical impacts, physiological impacts, breeding, Australia  

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